Author: Irving HexhamPublisher:
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Category : Independent churches
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Story of Isaiah Shembe: The catechism of the Nazarites and related writings
Author: Irving HexhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Independent churches
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Story of Isaiah Shembe: The hymns and Sabbath liturgy for morning and evening prayer of Isaiah Shembe's amaNazarites
Author: Irving HexhamPublisher:
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Category : Ekupakameni (South Africa)
Languages : en
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The Catechism of the Nazarites and Related Writings
Author: Robert PapiniPublisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A series on the Oral History of the ibandla lamaNazaretha, the Nazareth Baptist Church of South Africa, the largest by far African Independent Church among the Zulu-speaking people of Southern Africa.
Shembe, Ancestors, and Christ
Author: Edley J. MoodleyPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556358806
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Christian axis has shifted dramatically southward to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, so much so that today there are more Christians living in these southern regions than among their northern counterparts. In the case of Africa, the African Initiated Churches-founded by Africans and primarily for Africans-has largely contributed to the exponential growth and proliferation of the Christian faith in the continent. Yet, even more profoundly, these churches espouse a brand of Christianity that is indigenized and thoroughly contextual. Further, the power and popularity of the AICs, beyond the unprecedented numbers joining these churches, are attributed to their relevance to the existential everyday needs and concerns of their adherents in the context of a postcolonial Africa. At the heart of Christian theology is Christology-the confessed uniqueness of Christ in history and among world religions. Yet this key feature of Christianity, as with other important elements of the Christian faith, may be variously understood and re-interpreted in these indigenous churches. The focus of this study is the amaNazaretha Church, an influential religious group founded by the African charismatic prophet Isaiah Shembe in 1911 in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The movement today claims a following of some two million adherents and has proliferated beyond the borders of South Africa to neighboring countries in Southern Africa. The book addresses the complex and at times ambivalent understanding of the person and work of Christ in the amaNazaretha Church, presenting the genesis, history, beliefs, and practices of this significant religious movement in South Africa, with broader implications for similar movements across the continent of Africa and beyond.
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
Author: Joel CabritaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This book tells the story of one of the largest and most influential African churches in South Africa.
Spirits and Letters
Author: Thomas G. KirschPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857451421
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between 'charisma' and 'institution' by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the continuing anthropological interest in Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity, and representing the first book-length treatment of literacy practices among African Christians, this volume explores how church leaders in Zambia refer to the Bible and other religious literature, and how they organise a church bureaucracy in the Pentecostal-charismatic mode. Thus, by examining social processes and conflicts that revolve around the conjunction of Pentecostal-charismatic and literacy practices in Africa, Spirits and Letters reconsiders influential conceptual dichotomies in the social sciences and the humanities and is therefore of interest not only to anthropologists but also to scholars working in the fields of African studies, religious studies, and the sociology of religion.
Reception History and Biblical Studies
Author: Emma EnglandPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567660095
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception history practitioners at work and of their reflections this volume sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through the centuries. The chapters consider aspects as diverse as political and economic factors, cultural location, the discipline of Biblical Studies, and the impact of scholarly preconceptions, upon reception history. Topics covered include biblical figures and concepts, contemporary music, paintings, children's Bibles, and interpreters as diverse as Calvin, Lenin, and Nick Cave.
The Story of Isaiah Shembe
Author: Irving HexhamThe Stolen Bible
Author: Gerald O. WestPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004322787
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Stolen Bible tells the story of how Southern Africans have interacted with the Bible from its arrival in Dutch imperial ships in the mid-1600s through to contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The Stolen Bible emphasises African agency and distinguishes between African receptions of the Bible and African receptions of missionary-colonial Christianity. Through a series of detailed historical, geographical, and hermeneutical case-studies the book analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible, including the earliest African encounters with the Bible, the translation of the Bible into an African language, the appropriation of the Bible by African Independent Churches, the use of the Bible in the Black liberation struggle, and the ways in which the Bible is embodied in the lives of ordinary Africans.
The Hymns and Sabbath Liturgy for Morning and Evening Prayer of Isaiah Shembe's AmaNazarites
Author: Isaiah ShembePublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Isaiah Shembe was a charismatic leader of a young but already matured church movement. He interfered in the religious discourse of his time, challenging centres of Christian orthodoxy. This book presents the hymns, almost all composed by Shembe himself, that opened up a realm of religious and spiritual difference.